Folks about town

Ryan Foster

Mike Lowman, president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Columbia, cut the ribbon, which is for the new home of Project HOPE affiliated with the Home Builders Institute and supported locally by the Home Builders Association.

Ryan Foster, Allison Fields, and Dwayne Eanes have been promoted to senior accountant, assurance and advisory services at Scott McElveen, L.L.P.

Brandon Cooper Duches, Nancy Mace Kreml, and Michael Miller are three of the 12 winners of the S.C. Arts Commission's 2007- 2008 S.C. Fiction Project.

Peter M. Balthazor has joined the Columbia City Attorney's Office as an assistant city attorney.

Professional Printers of West Columbia was awarded a Benny, the highest honor in the 2007 Premier Print Awards, for their entry Professional Printers Corporate Book.

Rep. Gilda Cobb- Hunter, Rep. Lanny Littlejohn, Rachel Hodges, Tommy Preston, and Dr. Dan Barron have been honored by USC and the state's library community with Literacy Leaders Awards for their work to improve literacy in S.C.

USC has recognized 20 outstanding faculty mem- bers with awards. The recipients are John Lavigne, Golden Key Faculty Award; Ann Kingsolver, Stephen Morgan, and John Lavigne, Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award; Peter Sederberg, Lifetime Achievement Award for Undergraduate Research; Richard M. Showman, Adad B. Thomas Outstanding Faculty Advisor; H.Meili Steele, Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences; Laszlo A. Szekely, Russell Research Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering; Charles F. Mactutus, USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences; Manoj Malhotra, USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Professional Schools; Mark A. Berg, USC Educational Foundation Research Award for Science, Mathematics, and Engineering; Berten E. Ely III, USC Educational Foundation Outstanding Service Award; Walter B. Edgar,Valdis O. Lumans, and James M. Sodetz, Carolina Trustee Professorships; Robert Lyn, Antonello Monti, David Tedeschi, Stacy Wood; Michael J. Mungo Undergraduate Awards; Edsel Pena, Michael J. mungo Graduate Award; and Thomas J. Hilbish, Michael J. Mungo Distinguished Professor Award.

Dwayne Eanes Allison Fields